• Impact of Parental Occupation on Career Aspirations Fatimah Shah 

  Fatimah Shah; Zunia Saif Tirmazee (© Lahore School of Economics, 2020-05)

  This paper seeks to identify the relationship between parental occupations and gender-specific career aspirations of undergraduate students. To do this, we conducted surveys with fourth-year undergraduate students in ...
• Home-bias among Female Entrepreneurs: Experimental Evidence on Preferences from Pakistan 

  Farah Said; Mahreen Mahmud; Giovanna d’Adda; Dr Azam Chaudhry (© Lahore School of Economics, 2020-04)

  Enterprises run by women in developing countries are often short-lived and small. Using data from an RCT with aspiring female entrepreneurs in Pakistan, we find that providing loans and training leads to business creation, ...
• Gender Differences in Willingness to Compete 

  Muhammad Ahmed Nazif; Farah Said (© Lahore School of Economics, 2020-03)

  This thesis investigates the gender difference in competitiveness using a sample of undergraduate and graduate students in a private, higher education institution in Pakistan. The study uses standard 'tournament' style ...
• Can Competition Reduce Moral Hazard? A Laboratory Experiment 

  Raja Abdar Rahman; Dr. Farah Said (© Lahore School of Economics, 2020-02)

  Moral hazard aggravates mistrust between principals and agents and leads to economic inefficiency. Although literature has investigated if competition can reduce moral hazard, the evidence is mixed at best. This thesis ...
• Macroeconomic and Spatial Determinants of Remittances: A Cross Country Analysis 

  Gul Noor Ismail (© Lahore School of Economics, 2020-01)

  The volume of official world remittances and the rate of international migration have increased since 1970. Using bilateral remittances data from the top fifteen remittance recipient countries from 2010-2014, this study ...
• The Impact of School Facilities on Drop outs in Pakistan 

  Mahniya Zafar; Farah Said (© Lahore School of Economics, 2019-03)

  Investment in human capital has the potential to promote economic growth and alleviate poverty. Unfortunately, Pakistan’s performance on this front has been poor with 19% of the primary school age children being out of ...
• Corruption, Tax Evasion and Economic Development in Economies With Hierarchial Tax Administrative System 

  Dr. Waqar Wadho; Anum Ellahi (© Lahore School of Economics, 2019-02)

  The paper looks into joint determination of corruption and development where there is hierarchial bureaucratic setup; tier one-bureaucrat and tier two bureaucrats. Corruption happens at two level once when tier one ...
• Political Connections, Allocation of Development Projects, And Voting Pattern in the Faisalabad District 

  Tahreem Zia; Dr. Azam Chaudhry (© Lahore School of Economics, 2019-01)

  Development related funding is critical for the long-term growth of any country, but the allocation of funds between politicians and different areas can vary due to various factors and one important factor is the connections ...
• The Impact of Early Childbearing and Child Health in Punjab 

  Aeman Nadeem; Uzma Afzal (© Lahore School of Economics, 2018-03)
• Spousal and Nonspousal Trust and Reciprocity: Evidence from a Field Experiment 

  Marjan Nasir; Shemiah Parshad (© Lahore School of Economics, 2018-11)

  The Centre for Research in Economics and Business (CREB) was established in 2007 to conduct policy-oriented research with a rigorous academic perspective on key development issues facing Pakistan. In addition, CREB (i) ...
• Homophily and Strategic Behavior in Social Interactions: Evidence from a Lab Experiment 

  Zeenat Ansari; Farah Said (© Lahore School of Economics, 2017-12)

  The Centre for Research in Economics and Business (CREB) was established in 2007 to conduct policy-oriented research with a rigorous academic perspective on key development issues facing Pakistan. In addition, CREB (i) ...
• The Impact of Prenatal Exposure to Fasting on Child Health Outcomes 

  Azka Sarosh Mir; Theresa Thompson Chaudhry (© Lahore School of Economics, 2018-03)

  The Centre for Research in Economics and Business (CREB) was established in 2007 to conduct policy-oriented research with a rigorous academic perspective on key development issues facing Pakistan. In addition, CREB (i) ...
• Connections and Elections in Lahore: How Network Centrality Affects Electoral Politics in Pakistan 

  Mahnoor Asif; Azam Chaudhry (© Lahore School of Economics, 2016-10)

  This paper creates a unique map of Lahore’s political and nonpolitical networks to gauge the degree to which the area’s politicians are interconnected. In Pakistan, a politician must be awarded a party ticket before ...
• The Theory of the Natural Resource Curse: A Political Economy View 

  Sadia Hussain; Waqar Wadho (© Lahore School of Economics, 2017-02)

  This study revisits the conditionality of the natural resource curse using ethnic polarization as the center of analysis. It argues that the resource curse is triggered in ethnically polarized societies when productive ...
• Relative Wage Variation and Industry Location in Punjab 

  Zunia Saif Tirmazee (© Lahore School of Economics, 2016-03)

  This study tests the wage differential between nonproduction (whitecollar) and production (blue-collar) workers across districts of Punjab; it also seeks to determine whether these variations affect the industrial structure ...
• Education, Health Knowledge, and Maternal Health in Pakistan 

  Shandana Dar; Uzma Afzal (© Lahore School of Economics, 2016-01)
• Natural Disasters and Social Capital: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Pakistan 

  Uzma Afzal; Ginger Turner; Farah Said (© Lahore School of Economics, 2015)

  Apart from the economic and structural losses associated with a natural disaster, the communities it affects also undergo a loss in social capital, which can affect perceptions, levels of trust, and social cohesion. ...
• Caste, Social Exclusion, and Opportunities for Education in Rural Punjab 

  Tayyaba Tamim; Marriam Musa; Hana Tariq; Shahzeb Rathore (© Lahore School of Economics, 2015)

  Although caste-based social stratification and unequal access to educational opportunities coexist in several parts of South Asia, their interconnection remains underexplored in the context of Pakistan. This paper ...
• Education, Employment, and Women’s Say in Household Decision-Making in Pakistan 

  Duryab Fatima (© Lahore School of Economics, 2014)
• The Impact of Parents’ Subjective Aspirations on Schooling Investment in Rural Punjab 

  Anam Ashraf (© Lahore School of Economics, 2014)

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